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Thin snowpack, dry conditions bring early fire season to Yosemite
Los Angeles Times Daily Deal and Travel BloggerCampers and visitors are urged to take extra care with campfires when visiting Yosemite National Park because fire danger is higher than average for this time of year, according to a park announcement. Fire season in the park officially starts Monday....Tags: Environmental Issues
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Dead monkey, elephant meat and reptile purses seized at LAX
In what even U.S. Customs officials are describing as a “weird” week of sorts, border protection officers seized nearly half a pound of exotic meat, a dead primate and hundreds of handbags made with reptile skin coming in from Nigeria....
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Environmental Issues, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Nigeria, Wildlife
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Lawsuit aims to protect migrating swallows from deadly netting draped over bridges used as nesting sites
 A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing transportation agencies of violating migratory bird laws by installing protective netting across two bridges in the Petaluma, Calif., area that has injured and killed...
Tags: California Department of Transportation, Justice System, Highway Transportation, Environmental Issues, Transportation
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Yahoo, Tumblr take to social network to confirm $1.1-billion deal [video chat]
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Tumblr CEO David Karp both took to Tumblr Monday morning to confirm what we all suspected: Yahoo is buying Tumblr. Mayer's Yahoo will be paying $1.1 billion for Tumblr, most of it in cash, but the social network will continue...
Tags: Corporate Officers, Marissa Mayer, Environmental Issues, Culture, Arts and Culture
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Ask the L.A. mayor candidates: What about L.A.'s crumbling sidewalks?
During separate video interviews with the Los Angeles Times last month, candidates for L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel responded to questions from individual voters. Among them is Alissa Walker of Silver Lake, who asked: What do the candidates...Tags: Environmental Issues, Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Politics, Elections
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Alaska governor launches bid to measure oil in Arctic refuge
For decades, war has been waged over the holy grail of America's Arctic frontier, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The wide coastal plain on the edge of the Beaufort Sea contains stunning populations of caribou, grizzly, musk oxen and other wildlife...
Tags: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Petroleum Industry, U.S. Department of the Interior, Energy Resources, Wildlife
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How to avoid a return to the hospital
The only thing less pleasant than a stay in the hospital is having to go right back there to deal with complications. And experts say it happens all too often. One in 8 elderly patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Pneumonia, Yale University, Diabetes
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Alien 'crazy ants' invading southern U.S.
An invasion of alien "crazy ants" is making many residents of the U.S. Gulf Coast long for the old days of pesky, biting fire ants. Like fire ants, these South American invaders seem to be fond of electrical equipment. But unlike their stinging red...
Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Ecosystems
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Oakland police struggle to rebuild — using fewer resources
OAKLAND — It was a quiet evening by this city's standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out behind her, a caller said her neighbor was being beaten. A woman reported that a front door down the street had...
Tags: Theft, Shootings, University of California, Berkeley, Jack in the Box Incorporated, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud
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Google aims to be your personal cartographer to extend maps lead
SAN FRANCISCO -- With its three-dimensional satellite imagery of the planet, its block-by-block detail of neighborhoods and its ubiquitous driving directions, Google is already the king of online cartography. Now it's looking to lengthen its significant...
Tags: Ecosystems, Satellite Technology, Arts and Culture, Networking, Larry Page
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Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House
Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and studio as a model of affordable modern living. Most of the objects they lived with remain in place at the two-part,...
Tags: Architecture, The Getty, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Arts and Culture
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Idaho man pleads not guilty in alleged Uzbekistan terror plot
BOISE, Idaho — An Uzbekistan national living in Boise said little during his first court appearance Friday on federal charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Uzbekistan, Video Supplies and Services, Religion and Belief, Terrorism
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